GOP Health Care Bill Disinvests In Women’s Health
The Senate health care bill would leave millions of women uninsured, cause a spike in unintended pregnancies, and increase Medicaid spending on births, the Congressional Budget Office projects.
The Senate health care bill would leave millions of women uninsured, cause a spike in unintended pregnancies, and increase Medicaid spending on births, the Congressional Budget Office projects.
Do you know anyone who has cancer?
If the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) plan passes, a life threatening illness or a chronic condition, like cancer, can lead to financial ruin. Cancer is the costliest disease to treat - even with insurance.
The timing of the news out of Saudi Arabia was unexpected. But the die had been cast and the result was inevitable: King Salman’s son, Muhammad bin Salman (MBS), was elevated to Crown Prince, displacing his older cousin, Muhammad bin Nayef (MBN). Like monarchs everywhere, Saudi kings favor passing the throne to their direct descendants.
ROCKFORD, Ill.—Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos is the only member of Democratic Party leadership from the Midwest, and now she has a new job: tutoring her fellow House Democrats on talking to the rural voters that her party has lost to Republicans.
As one of just 12 Democratic House lawmakers representing a district carried by President Donald Trump in last year’s election, the future of Ms. Bustos’s party may depend on her instruction.
Under "Trumpcare," formally known as the American Health Care Act, Republicans want to strip the "essential health benefits" provision, according to TIME's Money feature. Under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, those essential benefits covered 10 categories that included coverage of maternity and newborn care. If eliminated, insurers could once more sell plans that do not cover pregnancy-related costs — which is bad news for moms, families, and babies.
Reports suggest that President Trump has finally decided to pull out of the 2015 Paris climate agreement after many weeks of a back and forth administration tug-of-war. Trump himself has tweeted that he will make an official announcement in the coming days. I have followed the ups and downs of this debate more closely than most, and weighed in where I could, because, as the U.S. special envoy for climate change, I led the U.S. negotiating effort from the start of the Obama administration through and beyond the Paris talks.
When Kyrin Falcetti dropped her 4-year old son Cole off at the babysitter, she had no idea it would be the last time she'd see him.
One hour in, the young boy somehow got his hands on a loaded gun at the sitter's house and shot himself to death.
"I don't want to be burying my son," Falcetti. "He didn't do anything wrong."Cole's babysitter shared a home with her fiancé who is a sheriff's deputy in training.
Expanding the Mexico City Policy; cutting the US’s contribution to the United Nations Population Fund budget; proposing a health care reform plan that would significantly reduce women’s access
Students protested the campus carry bill at the University of Georgia in April. Credit John Roark/Athens Banner-Herald, via Associated Press
Two more states — Arkansas and Georgia — have passed “campus carry” laws permitting licensed gun owners to pack concealed firearms at public universities, on the bizarre premise that students will be more secure from the nation’s epidemic of gun violence if there are more guns.
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